I love really close to 75 and drive on it all the time. I encounter wrecks every so often, but it's certainly not every day even. I fun it way more reliable than most of the other big highways around here.

So I had the distinct pleasure of going through a little over a mile of 635 and experiencing precisely zero traffic during rush hour. I was amazed, dazed and confused that I was able to leave work at 6 in downtown and make it to the repair shop by 625 when using any portion of 635 in my trip.

I hate 75 and refuse to take it unless I have to. I work in Richardson and live in McKinney and it's faster for me if I just go up Custer or Independence than dealing with 75. The stupidity that exudes from Dallas drivers is exemplified on 75 by a magnitude of at least 100 every day and as someone said get ready for your standard 7:30 am crash.

I don't get why they are trying to restrict non-local parking on the outer most stations.

Every person that parks there is one less that is driving to work, and clogging up the freeways. Those people are paying for a ticket or their company is paying, so I don't see why they are trying to discourage them from parking there.

Because those vehicles come from non-member cities that don't contribute funding to dart. Basically dart is trying to get the citizens in those cities to convince their city council to pony up and join dart.

They're restricting non-local parking because people who don't live in DART member cities aren't paying the taxes part of the fare (effectively). DART members cities fund the organization through sales tax. Those who do not live in DART member cities don't pay the sales tax, and therefor don't contribute to the general operating funds.

The population density and business centers in Dallas won't support mass transit outside of the DART rails that already exist. If most commercial/industrial/office space existed in one or two areas, say Plano/Frisco area and Uptown/Downtown, it'd be easier to manage, but with so many locations and such a wide area to cover, it would end up being a huge money pit (I'm not sure the DART even makes money in its current form).

Point taken. I was intending to use "make up" in the sense of "make up the operational costs". Though, if you look at fare box recovery ratios a few systems DO make profit on their fares. This is far from the norm, and appears to exist solely for high density cities, but it can happen.

Easier to build the far out spokes because there are fewer wealthy/established neighborhoods to cut through. If I could find a way to cut through around NW Highway I would pay almost any amount of money to have it done, but no one in HP/UP/Preston Hollow is going to be cool with that.

I think Uptown/Downtown is too developed to install another line now, maybe another ten years from now when we have another round of large renovation projects.

people downvoted this? Why it makes perfect sense. They could at least get rid of the stupid white poles. Do what real cities do and just have the lane marked, that way after a certain time people can move over to it back with out having to get on at certain points. It would make traffic flow so much easier.

Part of this traffic is because the on ramps dump cars out in a bad spot , you get that traffic wave as the right lane stops to let people in the other lanes slow down too because they see brake lights

I'm gonna say Dallas is way worse simply because if you turn your turn signal on in the DC area, someone will eventually let you in. In Dallas, it seemed like if you turn your signal on, it's a signal to everyone to speed up and not let you in.

sorry they aren't generous in dc, either. they will honk at you the second the light turns green and going down mass ave if you get stuck in the right lane because cars are parked good luck trying to get back into the flow of traffic. lived there and been going there since childhood so that's been my experience. i try to avoid 75 at all costs and do agree dallas drivers suck. i would rather be stuck in dc traffic anyday